Works cited, [out of nothing] #8, “its about does not abound in only’s subject”

Cartwright, Steve. Seaquest. Activision: 1983. Chapman, Matt, and Mike Chapman. Trogdor. Videlextrix: 2003. Egging, Keith, John Morgan, Mark Blazczyk, Rex Battenberg, Tom Fosha, Phil Raba, Rich Pagnusat, and Charlie Schultz. Zoo Keeper. Taito: 1982. Fenton, Jamie Faye. The Adventures of Robby Roto. Bally / Midway: 1981. Jarvis, Eugene. Defender. Williams: 1981. Jarvis, Eugene. Robotron: 2084. […]

Founding documents #10: Jackets before gutters, gutters before spines, spines before interiors, dust all the time

Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM From: Joe Milazzo To: Joe Potts, Eric Lindley, Janice Lee […] As to the cover: yes, a certain high degree of unadornment is perfectly fine. But I’m attaching here two simple “proof of concept” images for cover consideration. One is simply a sandpaper texture, as we discussed way […]

Founding documents #9: Mock-ups are just mazes without walls (level up!)

Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:46 PM From: Joe Milazzo To: eric lindley Superb! Thanks so much! I will continue tweaking and such. My eyeballs feel all crossed up, still, but maybe if I go read some Francis Ponge and then come back to the code… These sprites are all sourced from vintage arcade games. […]

Of nothing; at work.

Founding documents #8: Comments that may not have existed hitherto

In the spring of 2011, while I was a student at CalArts, I enrolled in a course, led by Jen Hofer, called “Literary Citizenship: Tiny Press Practices.” The class’s culminating project was for each student to produce a handmade, semi-reproducible book object. The remainder of the course was a wide-ranging survey/seminar on the methods and […]

Of Nothing Accounted

[out of nothing] has always and conscientiously avoided the use of the term experimental in describing itself. Perhaps we-as-editors-cum-curators are over-sensitive to this term because our formal education was capstoned at an institution known for self-conscious and so-named experimentation. But we are not ignorant of readerly perceptions, much less the “how”s by which the literary […]

OON’s Count

In conjunction with the release earlier this week of VIDA’s 2012 statistics, the editors of [out of nothing] here offer a raw count, broken down according to author’s / artist’s sex (inasmuch as this could be determined via author name, bio, etc.), of both the submissions the journal has received and the works that the […]

Founding documents #7: The glassy taste of clichés

[Definitions] Janice Lee Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:32 AM To: eric lindley Cc: Joe Milazzo , “[out of nothing]” <[email protected]> let’s do it! On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM, eric lindley wrote: Yes! I like the idea of us each generating definitions-perhaps OED style, where we can play with the origin, etc, […]

Postcardmancy

phi = the golden ratio n = the order in which our sendee ordered its copy of the journal f(n) = the Fibonacci number corresponding to n. For instance, p(1) = 1, p(3) = 2 p(n) = the prime number corresponding to n. For instance, p(1) = 2, p(3) = 5 round(x) is a function that rounds […]

Founding documents #6: In themes begin responsibilities

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, eric lindley wrote: yeah, I’m really enjoying the idea of overabundance or hemorrhage to impropriety. let’s make it a large metaphorical note card. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Janice Lee wrote: > yes yes, very nice. > if we had an oon bulletin board, […]

Founding documents #5: How reading might once have been made.

[OON] 8/2 reading PR materials On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Janice Lee wrote: I am happy with either one, though slightly more excited by the inverted one. most up to date: confirmed are +saehee cho +daiana feuer +laura vena +vanessa place +sergio hernandez +maxi kim +jeremy hight +analisa raya-flores +thomas trudgeon +christine […]

Founding Documents #4: When we came back to sending, we found our return address was missing

Call for submissions, [out of nothing] no. 3 / that there were some ah-ness to things Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM From: Joe Milazzo [JM] To: [undisclosed] Hi _______. I hope this message finds you well, happy, prosperous, all of the above. I’m writing to you: 1) in the interests simply of saying […]